How come I don’t have friends
like this? I’m not talking
about friends with whom I could
engage in a sex orgy with, like
the ones in this movie ‘A Good
Old Fashioned Orgy’, which would
be absolutely horrible and would
never happen, just like it could
never happen in any kind of
reality outside of this movie,
but I’m talking about friends
from high school who we are
still close with to this very
day, all living in the same
place, all hanging out with each
other, theme partying like it’s
1999 every weekend? Oh…
that’s right, I moved away, went
to college, met a girl, got
married and had
kids. Just like all
of my friends from high school
did. Damn.

Eric (Jason Sudekis) likes to
party… and not much else
really. We see early that
he has some kind of job, which
is commendable, but he lives for
his friends and the party.
In fact when we join in, Eric
his throwing his annual White
Trash Ball, complete with
mullets and Tractor races and
all kinds of White Trash
stuff. I guess. I
wouldn’t know. I didn’t
see any Black people at this
party though I bet a lot Black
people would love to go to a
White Trash Ball.
Regardless, the good times at
Eric’s villa are about to come
to a crashing end as his dad
(Don Johnson) is selling the
house right from under
him. Even though I know
Don Johnson is more than old
enough to be Jason Sudekis’
father, but something there
wasn’t working, which in all
honesty is neither here nor
there.

About these friends of Eric’s,
there his BFF slovenly Mike
(Tyler Labine) who I believe is
homeless, there’s controlling
Alison (Lake Bell) who is some
sort of psychologist or
something, uptight Adam (Nick
Kroll) who is a businessman,
repressed Laura (Lindsay Sloane)
who is a school teacher, Sue
(Michelle Borth) whose main job
we think is being insanely hot,
and finally we have Doug (Martin
Starr) who has a law degree and
wants to be a rock star and his
lady love Willow (Angela
Sarafyan) who does heaven knows
what.

So Eric wants to throw the
blowout Labor Day party to end
all blowout parties and
eventually comes to the idea
that this party should just be
an intimate affair between these
good friends in the form of a
sex orgy. Sounds like a
plan. The majority thinks
it’s a stupid plan for a party,
because it is, but over the two
months or so before labor day,
everybody’s on board.
There’s a little hiccup in that
Eric has met a pretty girl in
his

realtor
Kelly (Leslie Bibb), but thanks
to some sage advice from Mike of
all people, the orgy is on
track. Of course in the
time between the announcement of
the orgy and the actual event a
lot of theoretically funny stuff
does happen, and there is the
question whether or not this
thing is really going to
actually take place, but to my
surprise, they do have an
orgy. The sweetest, most
kind and gentle orgy ever.
I guess. I’ve never been
to one. I mean I’ve seen
plenty of them in other types of
movies. But they never
looked this one. Roll
credits.

So…
what we have here with ‘A Good
Old Fashioned Orgy’ is a
completely amoral, tasteless,
adult comedy. Or should I
say a completely amoral,
tasteless comedy with adults in
its cast, since the comedy was
mostly juvenile. Could
eight friends be so close that
they could all pile into a room,
have sex with each other and be
completely cool with that the
next day? Probably not,
but then it’s just a
movie. Even though all
four of the women in this movie
are all very attractive, would
the guys ignore the other three
and just wait for the one who
was with Michelle Borth to
finish so they could take their
turn? Possibly. But
it’s just a movie. That
statement was inappropriate, but
then this movie was
inappropriate.
Whaddayagonnado?

Yes,
the movie made ‘The Land that
Time Forgot’ seemed believable
by comparison, and we don’t know
why Leslie Bibb, as lovely as
she is, was actually in this
movie, meaning you could load up
IMovie and edit out all her
scenes, save ten minutes and the
movie will still play the same,
and we don’t care that its
tasteless or amoral, look at the
title… all we care is if it made
us laugh. It did.
Not as much as we would’ve
liked, but I did laugh.
And it was trying so hard to
make us laugh that the effort is
commendable.

Without
breaking down the jokes, just
know that movie does have its
moments of comedic gold, a lot
of that provided by David
Koechner via glorified
cameo. Also, a couple of
jokes might’ve been too clever
for their own good. Say
like the scene where these good
friends were playing whiffle
ball, see what I mean about
awesome friends? So
they’re playing whiffle ball,
Adam is pitching, the women are
in the outfield doing stuff that
has nothing to do with whiffle
ball and Adam says ‘Now I know
how Tom Hanks felt’. I’m
thinking ‘whatever the hell that
meant’, then like two minutes
later it dawns on me that this
was ‘A League of Their Own’
reference. That was funny…
but by then they’d moved
on. Again,
whaddayagonnado?

‘A
Good Old Fashioned Orgy’
certainly isn’t for the prudish
or the rigidly logical amongst
us, and at times it was
tasteless for no other reason
than it could be, but it did
have it moments.